Ally is really very smart. She’s made it through several years of school without anyone finding out that she cannot read. She fakes, she jokes, and she disrupts her class to avoid being found out that she find reading extremely difficult. Her new teacher is Mr. Daniels. He is perhaps more perceptive than her previous teachers. He realizes that she has dyslexia, and starts working with her one on one. He also shows her and the entire class that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of. Ally also makes new friends and develops some of the closest friendships she has ever had in her life, so far.

This was a quite read for me (I am also not dyslexic.) I would highly recommend it for students who feel different, and for those who would like to better understand dyslexia. I did find myself frustrated with Ally in the beginning of the book, however. Why didn’t she tell someone years earlier about all of the problems she was having?